(ask continued)

How is she never exaggerate anything? How can her words has this healing effect? As if writing is a big puzzle and you always find the right pieces to complete it! I like easy-reading fanfics too, they are bubble gum but sooo enjoyable. I love and respect them. But yours are in a different level, strong, inspiring and make me want to read them so many times. I remember after reading your “What the Storm Brought In” I had a strong urge to draw something for that beautiful work! 

I’ve been staring at this ask for about fifteen minutes. 
Okay, twenty minutes now, since I finally typed that first sentence. 
There’s something about putting yourself out there as a creator of something. Big, small, whatever. I…I mostly do it for the fun of it, truly. It brings me joy to see the words pour out in a torrent, and it makes me happy to see others enjoy them as well. 
I want to articulate so much how impactful it is to hear someone say that I have inspired them. I keep rewriting my reply and I’m not finding the words (isn’t that ironic?) But I can tell you that although I do write for the joy and fun I glean from it, it is also so scary. A little bit of me is in each chapter. Parts I hide and keep safe inside are out there raw and naked for people to see and sometimes they are beautiful and sometimes they are ugly and sometimes they are silly or immature or whatever but they are me as much as they are not. 

So when someone tells me, once in a blue moon that I managed by some miracle to inspire them with something I created-
Inspired them as I have been inspired by other much more talented skilled creators than myself I… okay, I can’t even articulate how incredibly happy that makes me. I may be bawling a bit- just a bit- not gross sobbing just, I’m happy. really truly happy and I appreciate that you would share that -so- much. Thank you. 

I honestly have some of the most lovely people reading my work. Lovely, kind people who are willing to articulate their appreciation and hesitations with my little stories and that means a lot to me. So much. 

Argh, Okay. I’m gonna stop before I do in fact start the gross sobbing, haha! 

much, much love
Inky